Please don’t snog the murder suspects.
The Oxford Murders (2008) is a sophisticated and slightly gamy murder mystery that, for audience members who like to actually try to solve the mystery du jour, unfortunately uses stochastic forces to obscure the mystery.
Stochastic. Yep, sophisticated.
A new mathematics student at Oxford, an American named Martin, wants famed Professor Seldom to be his thesis advisor, although Seldom no longer accepts PhD students for supervision. His landlady knows Seldom, and her husband and she worked with him at one time on the Enigma machine, along with Alan Turing. Oh, he wants Seldom, doesn’t he.
And then the landlady turns up dead. Her body is found by Professor Seldom and Martin.
From here we’re on a gallop to figure out not only who did this, but who’s leaving clues in the form of logical series pictures. Why would they do that?
I dunno.
As I mentioned, stochastic forces appear to cloud over the mystery’s clues, not to mention a couple of young ladies interested in Martin. The end is quite exciting, if perhaps a trifle incoherent.
It’s fun, if a bit unbelievable. Enjoy it, but you won’t remember it after a week or so.
